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Show ONLY FARMERS CAN GIVE RELIEF e From Meat Famine, is Opinion Of Packens at Convention Conven-tion ' Chicago, Sept. 22, The responsibility re-sponsibility of averting a future meat famine was put up to small farmers today by speakers at the eighth annual convention of the Amerjcan Meat Packers' convention con-vention here today. All agreed that if the decrease in meat production of the last ten years is not stopped, the question of the meat supply for the people of the United States will be most serious. Among the rem edies suggested by the speakers iwrew Every small farmer should raise at least two beef steers a year to offset the decreased pro; duction of the great ranches'of the west. The remaining ranges should be cut up intofarms to put all farmers on an'equal footing. Development of the hills of New England With their bountiful bounti-ful springs and prevailing shade as a beef producing country Substitution of corn for cotton in the southern states and 'the consequent'zdevelopment of the cattle and hog production. The report of the executive committee sounded the first note of the tlangerof a fartilnir "The American meat packing house situation-ana that roD cgnf sumersof.meat food products in this country are both in a condition con-dition more precarious than at any time in our history," the report stated. "We are facing conditions in the production of meat food products which would have been thought impossible ten years ago. The shortage of livestock, which has been impressed im-pressed upon us as packing house producers for several years, has been intens&ied during dur-ing the last year. Our population popula-tion is growing at its normal rate. We have passed the point where demand has overtaken production, and we are now on a basis which shows that demand de-mand exceeds the supply of meat food products to such an extent that we have abnormally high prices for meat food products." |